External demolition is underway at the old Chesterton Middle School (and before that the old Chesterton High School), as work continues on the construction of the Duneland Family YMCA’s Healthy Living Campus. Yesterday morning, Monday, Sept. 30, an...
Town of Chesterton
Chesterton Town Council gets first look at tentative drawings of new Downtown public parking lots
When they’re completed, the two new public parking lots on Grant Ave. and East Indiana Ave. will provide approximately 100 new spaces in Downtown Chesterton. Assistant Town Engineer Matt Gavelek took the Town Council on a virtual tour of those two...
Chesterton Town Council eyeing remodel of town hall meeting room and fire station improvements
Once upon a time the most notable furnishing in the Chesterton town hall’s meeting room was a long wooden bench looking remarkably like a church pew, salvaged years earlier from the New York Central’s passenger depot. That bench was typically...
Pond enhancement project completed at Coffee Creek Park
Chesterton Park Superintendent Tyler McLead was delighted to announce at the Town Council’s meeting Monday night, Sept. 23, that the pond enhancement project at Coffee Creek Park has been completed. “It’s a good project for Coffee Creek...
Central Services technicians keep the Chesterton Street Department moving forward
The next time you watch the Chesterton Street Department’s grapple truck lifting and removing your brush—or you happen to notice in your rear-view one of the Chesterton Police Department’s two dozen squad cars—or you see a Park Department...
Demolition of old Chesterton Police Department station house underway
The full-scale demolition of the old Chesterton Police Department station house at the northeast corner of Broadway and North Eighth Street began this morning, Monday, Sept. 23, as subcontractor Indiana Earth took a claw-equipped excavator to the...
Korean War veteran Andy Michel recalls his service after Honor Flight to Washington DC
The U.S. military calls it the “tooth-to-tail” ratio: The number of rear-echelon troops (or tail) it takes to support a combat soldier (or tooth). In World War II, only 19 percent of soldiers (or Marines or sailors or airmen) ever saw the front...
THIRD FRIDAYS series continues in Downtown Chesterton TOMORROW Friday Sept 20
If you were to make a list of all the creatives in Chesterton—the artists and artisans, the musicians and restaurateurs, the performers and poets and raconteurs—you’d be impressed by how many actually live, work, edify, and entertain in this...
Chesterton Fire Department’s C Crew successfully completes annual agility test
Firefighters must not only be light on their feet but sure of foot Ladders, staircases, and roofs. Attics, basements, and crawlspaces. Every scene is potentially an obstacle course which firefighters must navigate and negotiate, all the while wearing...
Demo of the old Chesterton Police Department station house underway as old-timers reminisce
The Chesterton Police Commission’s meeting on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 12, hadn’t yet been called to order and its members were hobnobbing about the CPD’s shiny new station house—in whose spacious training room they were now sitting—when...